Friday, March 30, 2012

Somehow, all of the stuff on the table has to make it into the carry-on bag, but before that happens, there is the plethora of banks and government departments to convince that we really did move address a year ago.

But it's a different sort of baggage that's kept our minds occupied other than on the job in hand over the past few days.

Despite our repeated advices, demands, and now begging, it seems that every time we lodge a change of address it miraculously changes back the day before we depart.

So far this week we've experienced this phenomena from a bank, two government departments, one of whom advised that they have never had our residential address and still don't and were simply unable to explain how the cheque I was holding in my hand had come to be addressed in bold type to that very place, and then. Perhaps our mistrust of all things bureaucratic reached something of a crescendo when this very day, our medical insurer announced that I owed $1800 in back-payments because it had made a significant file error in recording my date of birth and wasn't I pleased that they had only gone back six years.

I suppose I should have been and maybe in different circumstances I might have been.

And that, dear readers pretty much sums up this blog for the duration of our small hiatus which is from this day, over!

Without dwelling too much on "busyness" it seems as though our spare beds and even floors have been mostly occupied by friends, children and grandchildren various for pretty much three months, and when they haven't, we've been occupying beds in some other location thanks to the generosity of friends, children and grandchildren various.

It's pretty much been a roller coaster ride that had to come to an abrupt end a day or two ago, just so that we could get stuff stacked away, banking finalised, and things packed for the next leg of our own "trip of a lifetime" and that is exactly how far at least for now, we intend to make this journey stretch - our lifetimes!

We're back,so snap on your seatbelts and come for the ride, because as usual this blog will happen whether it's rocky or not!

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Fading memories

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Had he still been among us, and for some inexplicable reason stumbled upon these pages he may quite rightly have observed that this blog is simply here to remember things for us, thereby saving us that particular bother and allowing us to get on with the next bit of our lives without distraction, our adventures safely tucked away for a time when we may well need to recall them.